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Originally Posted by abousetta

Hi Vai,

For me to do a search and determine the sensitivity, specificity, postive and negative predictive values and accuracy I need to have a reference standard. Searching for my name is a good place to start because I know how many posts I have and roughly how many threads I have started, etc. What is the point in just search for Vlookup or import files or any ohter generic terms. I won't be able to tell whether the search is actually pulling in the right posts. If the search can't find posts for abousetta why should I expect it will find it for another search term? I am a researcher and so you have to talk to me with a scientific rationale.

I totally take your point on it abousetta, the search function is the same function which is being used by one of the world's top 300 sites and one of the worlds top most forum forums.digitalpoint.com
I did a quick search for my old user name there back in 2003 and it did give me decent results so let me check out with the owner of the forum who actually coded the search query on how to make it better.

Still if you can try out a few generic searches and tell us what the accuracy is as per you it wont hurt at all (and i am looking into it in the mean time).